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In addition to this month’s Cards, Tags, & More Kit and Mixed Media Kit (from previous Tres Jolie Kits), I used:

Gary M. Burlin Co. Ultrafine Gold Embossing Powder, Finnabair Clear Gesso, Ranger Clear Big Emboss It, Ranger Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Powder, Kelly Creates Traceable Sentiment Stamps, BoBunny Sentiments With Love Stamps, Craft Consortium Belle Fleur Clear Stamps, StazOn Olive Green, Scrapbook Adhesives 12”x12” Adhesive Sheets, Art Glitter Glue, Fabri-Tac

Tres Jolie Kit Club–August 2023 Mood board

Image | August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 | Corner Scraps

Hey, y’all! I hope your August has been going well. Have you had a chance to check out the mood board challenge yet? This week I have a couple of mixed media projects for you that I created for my mood board inspired project! I couldn’t decide if I wanted to do a canvas or a clipboard, so I did both!

Be sure to check out my video to see how they came together!

August 2023 Mood Board:

There aren’t really a lot of details needed to describe the process for my projects – it’s mostly a lot of layering and adhering!

I added black gesso to my clipboard along the edges, the clip, and the back, but since I was wrapping the patterned paper around the canvas, it didn’t need any gesso.

I used a 3”x9” canvas, and after deciding which paper I wanted to use, I cut a 4”x10” section out – keeping the printed flower cluster I had planned to focus on to the top right of the canvas. Since I didn’t want to wrap the flower cluster around the edge of the canvas, that led me to cut a couple of strips of the glittery half-sheet to use as my edge wraps for the top and right edges.

I used the Champagne Stardust Butter to accent the edges of the canvas and coated the surface with the same matte medium I used to glue the paper to the canvas. After the matte medium had dried, I added some of the Lindy’s Moon Shadow Mist from the Mixed Media Kit to grunge my background up a bit, then gave everything a spray of Workable Fixatif.

I coated the die-cut and fussy-cut flowers and leaves I wanted to use with more of the Champagne Stardust Butter, separated the leaves and some of the flower petals so I could give the die-cuts a bit more shape as I was putting everything together, then grabbed up my jar of 3D Matte Gel and started the assembly process.

I used more 3D Matte Gel to attach the Prima flowers, gave them a light coat of matte varnish to help protect them, then brushed on a bit of both Stardust Butters just to blend them in a little with the background.

My final addition was to brush on some art stones and Mini Art Stones using Soft Matte Gel and to attach the sentiment/quote.

The process for the clipboard wasn’t very different from the canvas. I didn’t wrap the patterned paper around the clipboard – instead, I distressed the edges, added a few tears and curls, and backed those tears with pieces of the same glittery paper I used to wrap the top and right edge of the canvas.

I used the Marcasite Stardust Butter on the clipboard’s background – covering the clip and the underside of the curled tears, as well as adding it to the corners and edges – but the rest of the assembly was the same process.

The main reason I decided to create both the canvas and the clipboard was that they weren’t going to be vastly different projects, and since they were both smaller, I could very easily work on them side-by-side!

Thank you for joining me here on the blog today! I hope you enjoyed these two projects and they gave you some ideas and inspiration for your next crafting adventure!

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In addition to this month’s Mixed Media Kit and Scrapbooking Kit, I used (from previous Tres Jolie Kits):

Finnabair Heavy Black Gesso, Finnabair 3D Matte Gel, Finnabair Soft Matte Gel, Finnabair Mini Art Stones, art stones, mini clipboard, 3”x9” canvas, Liquitex Professional Matte Medium, Liquitex Basics Matte Varnish

Tres Jolie Kit Club–Triple Frame–August 2023 Mixed Media Kit

Image | August 10, 2023August 9, 2023 | Corner Scraps

Hey, y’all! Have you had a chance to break into your August Mixed Media Kit yet? It is a fabulously fun kit to play with!

I turned the Prima trays in my kit into a photo spread – using my photo as the center, stretching the hand to the left frame, and adding a few butterflies.

Be sure to check out my video to see how my frames came together – a little acetate for stenciling, various papers for photo printing, some clear glue and sealers and I was done!

Since I was going to be working on acetate, I couldn’t use a heat gun to expedite the dry time of the Stardust Butters, so I did all of my wet mediums at the same time and allowed them to air dry.

For the trays, I started by adding a light spritz of water to the trays to help the Lindy’s absorb a little quicker when I sprayed it on. I wasn’t sure how many coats of Lindy’s I would need for the trays to get the color I wanted, but for what I wanted, I only used one coat of the Lindy’s, then sealed the trays with some Crystal Clear and Gloss UV Resistant Krylon.

After I had the trays sprayed, I went to work adding the Stardust Butters to acetate. On the first sheet of acetate I worked on, I measured out the areas I would need for the three trays because I wanted to keep the stencil design as centered as possible. After I had my first sheet done, I got curious about how a second layer of stenciling would look and ended up creating a second sheet of stenciled acetate that I could offset the first pieces over.

While my trays and acetate were drying, I went to work on my photos. In the video, I talk about my experimentation, but in the end, I did print the images on a sheet of white tissue paper and heavy vellum, layered them up, then sprayed them with the Crystal Clear and UV Resistant Krylon sprays.

After everything was dry and I fussy cut my images, I started the assembly process. I glued the images to more acetate that I had cut to the size I needed for the trays, glued my stenciled acetate layers together, and added all of my layers to their frames (trays).

I spent much more time working out all of the “hows” and waiting for the mediums to dry than I did doing any actual “work” on this Tri-Frame Photo Spread! So next time I want to do something like this it will be (should be!!) a rather quick and easy process!

Thank you for joining me here today on the blog, I hope you enjoyed this project and gave you some ideas of what you can create using this month’s Mixed Media Kit.

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In addition to this month’s Mixed Media Kit, I used:

Cardstock Warehouse 8-1/2”x11” Vellum, Cricut 12×12 Acetate, Krylon: Workable Fixatif, Triple-Thick Crystal Clear Glaze, & Gloss UV-Resistant Clear, white tissue paper, JudiKins Diamond Glaze, Ranger Glossy Accents

Tres Jolie Kit Club – Mini Blank Journal – August 2023 Cards, Tags, & More Kit

Image | August 3, 2023August 2, 2023 | Corner Scraps

Hey, y’all! I’m up on the blog today with a mini sketchbook/journal for you! I created the cover of this mini-book using the papers, notecards, ink, die set, and Tres Jolie Chipboard found in this month’s Cards, Tags, & More Kit. I don’t know why, but as soon as I saw the die in the kit this month I knew it needed to become the spine of a book – plus I thought the size of the notecards were perfect to create a cute little cover!

Overall this isn’t a difficult project, it was really a lot more “fiddly” work – measuring, cutting, and stitching. Make sure you check out the video to see how I put my mini-sketchbook together!

The first thing I needed to do to create my cover is to piece together some of the patterned paper so it would be large enough! Truth be told, the thought process looked a little like this:

Hmmm….six inch paper, six-ish inch notecards…that’ll be good! Oh…wait…I need it to be able to wrap around.

So, after coming to that realization, I cut my main cover papers down, using the wreath print as my guide because I wanted to keep the wreath centered on the front cover. Fortunately, the circle of the wreath is 3 inches, and that made my work a little easier because I had already planned on wrapping the spine paper over 1 inch to the front and back covers.

I cut along one edge of the circle – the edge that would go against the spine papers – and left about 4 inches – 3 inches to show on the cover, and 1 inch to wrap around the front edge. For the top and bottom paper piecing, I cut off as little as I thought was possible that would leave as much foliage intact, but also leave enough to make sure I could securely adhere the 1-1/2” strips I needed to wrap the top and bottom of the cover.

For the spine, because I would still need a little to wrap around the top and bottom, I used two sheets of the wood plank patterned paper and lined the plank print up a little, but didn’t cut down the height until the two pieces were glued together so I could work from the edge of the overlap – because I wanted to keep the seam centered along the spine.

Before I glued the main patterned paper for the cover to the extension pieces, I inked along the top and bottom edges to add some definition between the two layers. After the pieces were glued together, I added a couple of layers of matte varnish to help seal and protect the papers.

When it came time to add the cover papers to the notecards, I marked on the notecards where the edge closest to the spine would need to line up and where the edge of the main cover patterned paper needed to line up to be centered on the cover.

For my spine, after the glue had dried where I had pieced the papers together, I used the decorative die from the set in the kit to cut through the wood plank paper. I backed the wood plank paper with a 1-1/2” wide piece of patterned paper decorated at the top with some of the Dresden Trim and added a little glue to hold everything together before coming back with a matte varnish to help seal the edges of the die cut so it will (hopefully!) not get caught on anything.

I cut my spine paper to a total width of 3-3/4”, 1-1/2” for the spine, 1” to wrap around the front and back cover, and, since I had marked where the cover papers needed to line up with the spine paper 1” from the edge, that left me a 1/8” gap between the spine and notecards to allow the cover to open and close. Then I just made sure everything was glued down and wrapped the edges around creating the cover.

For my endpapers, I needed a total of 8” to cover the inner cover and create the first and last pages of the sketchbook. Since the patterned papers in the kit are 6”x6”, I once again did a little paper piecing. I kept one of the sheets at their full 6” width, then added the extra 2” I needed with cut-off from a second sheet of patterned paper – cut to 2-1/2” so I could glue the two pieces together.

I used the full six stands of some off-white embroidery floss and added a simple straight stitch along the seam for a little extra interest and texture – eyeballing how far from the seam I wanted the stitch line, and pre-poking my holes 1/4” apart so my stitches would be even. After the stitching was complete, I added some of the Dresden Trip to the back side of my stitching since that was the side that was rougher from the awl and needle going through.

Front Endpaper

Back Endpaper

For the blank pages in my mini sketchbook, I used 9”x12” mixed media paper. I was able to cut two 5-11/16”x8” pages from each sheet of mixed media paper, and in the end, I ended up with 16 signatures that had four pages each to get the 1-1/2” text block I needed for the spine. The size of my pages was determined by the size of my cover, so when I was determining the size needed I cut them to allow about 2mm from the top, bottom, and outer edges of the cover.

I created a 5-hole template for all of the hole poking, got all of my signatures ready, then started sewing my text block together using two strands of embroidery floss. I used a traditional method for stitching my signatures together, and if you are familiar with Coptic Stitching, it is a very similar technique. You can find a step-by-step pictorial tutorial from Nik the Booksmith here and a video tutorial from Sea Lemon here. If you don’t have a means to trim your text block together and you want to try and even the edges out a little, you can use a sanding block and some gentle sanding. It may not create “perfect” edges, but it can help some!

With the text block stitched together, I added my endpapers, clamped everything together, and added a thin layer of PVA glue, then my Super (traditional bookbinding cloth), followed by a couple more thin layers of PVA glue. I worked in thin layers of glue and allowed about 5 minutes of dry time in between so I wouldn’t saturate the text block or have glue leak between the signatures and accidentally glue everything together. Before getting it set in the cover, my final addition to the text block was some homemade headbands – mostly because I came across them while I was searching through all my book-making papers and decided that if I made them, I should use them sometime!

The final decorative touches to my cover were to add a piece of Tres Jolie Chipboard to the front spine edge and stamped Journal across the center of the front cover paper (I just used some artist masking tape to hold my alpha stamps together so I could keep them mostly straight!). I sealed the chipboard with some matte varnish, then used Glossy Accents to attach it. I sprayed my stamping with some Workable Fixatif, then added a final coat of matte varnish to the cover.

Thank you for joining me here today on the blog! I hope you enjoyed this mini sketchbook/journal and it gave you some ideas of what you can create using the items found in this month’s Cards, Tags, & More Kit!

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In addition to this month’s Cards, Tags, & More Kit, I used:

LineCo PVA Glue, LineCo Super, embroidery floss, Art Glitter Glue, Liquitex Matte Varnish, mixed media paper, Workable Fixatif, Hampton Art Alphabet Stamp Set

Reveal Day! – August 2023 Tres Jolie Kit Club Kits!

Image | August 1, 2023July 28, 2023 | Corner Scraps

Hey, y’all! Another month has gone, and another month of Tres Jolie Kits! The August kits are fabulous and will give you plenty of reasons to stay indoors while we wait for the heat of August to pass. I don’t like being cold or hot, so my favorite seasons are spring and autumn – which means I spend about half the year waiting for something better! Anywho…on to what you are really here for, the newest kits!

If you haven’t heard, Tres Jolie now offers free shipping on regular orders over $49. Just use the code: FREESHIPPING. Make sure you have your Tres Jolie Kit Club kits so you can create your summer memory crafts and preserve your summer memories! Be sure to get your kits before they’re gone! Or, better yet, subscribe to Tres Jolie Kit Club so you will never miss a kit!

Be sure you follow us on all social media platforms (Tres Jolie Kit Club links at the end of the post; Corner Scraps links to the right) and have joined the Tres Jolie Kit Club Facebook Café so you won’t miss a single announcement or project created with these kits.

Now for the August 2023 Kits!

The August 2023 Scrapbooking Kit is filled with the 12”x12” Blush Indulgence Collection from 3Quarter Designs, fabulous flowers and Resist Alpha from Prima, and lovely Tres Jolie Chipboard. This month’s kit is absolutely gorgeous and combines rustic and grungy greys with beautiful pinks and corals! It is a lovely assortment of patterned papers and perfectly coordinated embellishments!

This month’s Mixed Media Kit is a fabulous treat! In it, you will find a pack of Wooden Trays and a wonderful Bloom stencil from Prima, two shimmery Stardust Butters from TCW, and a beautiful Smokey Sapphire Moon Shadow Mist spray from Lindy’s Gang. So many possibilities for your creativity to flow with this kit you could create a set of personalized trays, shadow boxes, or picture frames!

In the Cards, Tags, & More Kit, you will find Enchanted papers from Memory-Place, Dresden Trim from Prima, wonderful red roses from 49 & Market, blank notecards and envelopes, and beautiful Tres Jolie Chipboard. There is enough for you to create some fantastic cards, tags, and ATCs – a wide variety of “mini” projects! Who doesn’t like creating a variety of projects from one kit?

These kits are for the beginner to the advanced, from clean and simple to the mixed media maven. No matter your style, there is something for everyone. We know you are going to love it!

Now (drumroll please!), presenting the August 2023 Tres Jolie Kits:

Scrapbook Kit

Mixed Media Kit

Cards, Tags, and More Kit

Don’t forget to stop by the Tres Jolie YouTube channel and see our video reveal of all our kits.

Love them, right?!?! You can still get one of your own (some kits are in very limited quantities). Become a subscriber and you will never miss out on our gorgeous, coordinated kits. Just visit Tres Jolie subscribe.

The designers at Tres Jolie have created some amazing layouts/projects with this kit.

Here is a little tease from me:

Please stop by the other designer’s blogs and check out their sneak peeks. They are listed below:

Debbie Adams

Olivia Marmara

Kim Heard

We have a new mood board challenge for the month. Here are the rules:

Place your entries in the August 2023 challenge folder on Tres Jolie Kit Club Café Facebook page. This challenge ends on August 31st, 2023 at 11:59 pm CST. All entries must be in this folder to be eligible for the prize (to have everyone eligible to win, we are limiting the same winner to once every 3 months).

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